AI and anxiety spirals: chatbots at 2am

End-of-lesson check

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1. What is a key risk of using AI chatbots during an anxiety spiral at 2am?

   1. AI will always call emergency services without your permission
   2. AI becomes less accurate when used late at night
   3. AI can amplify negative thoughts and create a feedback loop of rumination
   4. AI will remember your conversations and share them with others

2. Which of the following represents a helpful use of AI during an anxiety attack?

   1. Asking AI to predict whether things will get worse
   2. Using AI as your only support system for weeks
   3. Using AI to repeatedly analyze what went wrong in your day
   4. Asking AI to guide you through a breathing exercise

3. If you realize you've been chatting with AI about anxiety for 25 minutes, what should you do?

   1. Send the AI a message saying you'll be back tomorrow
   2. Continue the conversation since you're making progress
   3. Stop talking about anxiety entirely and go to sleep immediately
   4. Switch to calling a real person you trust

4. Why does the lesson recommend saving both a friend's number AND a crisis line number?

   1. Having both ensures you always have someone to call, whether you need casual support or urgent help
   2. Friends don't understand anxiety as well as professionals
   3. Crisis lines are only available during business hours, so a friend is better at night
   4. Crisis lines charge money, so you need a friend as a backup

5. What does the lesson identify as the main difference between AI and a human therapist?

   1. AI lacks the ability to recognize when a situation requires human intervention
   2. AI is more expensive than therapy
   3. AI can cure anxiety instantly
   4. Therapists cannot help with anxiety

6. What does the term 'feedback loop' specifically refer to in the context of AI and anxiety?

   1. A technique for ending conversations with AI
   2. A way AI gives you positive encouragement
   3. The mechanism AI uses to learn your preferences
   4. A pattern where anxious thoughts repeated to AI lead to more anxious responses

7. How can you tell when using an AI chatbot for anxiety has become a form of avoidance?

   1. When chatting with AI feels like it's replacing rather than supporting human connection
   2. When you start using it during daytime hours
   3. When the AI gives you advice you didn't ask for
   4. When you use it for more than 10 minutes

8. The lesson suggests asking AI for information during a crisis. What specific information should that be?

   1. The weather forecast
   2. How to meditate properly
   3. Crisis line phone numbers
   4. Historical facts about anxiety

9. What makes a 20-minute time limit a 'healthy limit' for AI anxiety chat?

   1. It's a random number the lesson author chose
   2. It prevents the conversation from becoming a rumination loop while still allowing some use
   3. It's the maximum amount of time AI can function
   4. It matches how long most movies are

10. When the lesson says to 'challenge a catastrophic thought' using AI, what does it mean?

    1. Ask AI to worry more about the problem
    2. Ask AI to help you examine whether your anxious thought is realistic
    3. Ask AI to predict the future accurately
    4. Ask AI to confirm that your worst fears will come true

11. Why does the lesson specifically mention 2am as a time when people might use AI for anxiety?

    1. 2am is when people typically feel most anxious
    2. The lesson author prefers nighttime
    3. AI works better at that hour
    4. Sleep disruptions often cause nighttime anxiety, and human support may be less available

12. What does the lesson mean when it says AI is a 'tool'?

    1. AI requires a subscription to work
    2. AI should be used for building things
    3. AI is more advanced than humans
    4. AI is something you control and use for specific purposes, not a replacement for human support

13. The lesson describes 'rumination' with AI. What is rumination in this context?

    1. A breathing technique AI teaches you
    2. A method for forgetting anxiety
    3. A type of AI response that is very short
    4. Repeating the same anxious thoughts over and over in a conversation

14. If someone notices that chatting with AI about anxiety is making them feel worse, what should they do?

    1. Stop the AI conversation and reach out to a human
    2. Keep chatting because AI always eventually helps
    3. Ask the AI for medical advice
    4. Switch to a different AI chatbot

15. Why is it important to have a personal rule about AI anxiety use BEFORE you need it?

    1. Rules don't matter in the moment
    2. AI requires you to agree to terms first
    3. Having a pre-set rule helps you act quickly when anxiety impairs clear thinking
    4. You can only set rules during daytime hours